Dutton Adult, September 1981. First American. Hardcover. First US edition in very good dust jacket. White cloth spine with brown lettering & brown paper covered boards. Tanned end pages. Foxing to top edge & fore-edge. Also four brown specks top edge. Text without markings. More
Penguin USA, September 1999. First American. Hardcover. This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and..... More
New Directions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures -- delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition -- bring the canon to remarkably vivid..... More
Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto in heavily chipped, darkened dustjacket. Not price clipped. One long 4-inch tear that snakes down from top front panel near spine. Also a pyramid shaped chip at bottom front panel near fore-edge bottom corner. Each edge of chip about 3-inches. Tan textured..... More
Enitharmon Press, July 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto in very good dust jacket with sun faded edges. Brown paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. A thin line of scattered dark stains gutter of front end pages. Limited/numbered edition: 74/250. Tipped-in on frontispiece is print of Borges portrait..... More
CASTLE BOOKS, January 1967. Hardcover. Reissue in good dust jacket with tanning/darkening of spine & rubbing to front panel. NOT price clipped. Original price ($5.00) on front flap. Yellow paper covered boards with black lettering on spine. Foxing/darkening top textblock edge. Clean interiors without markings. Solid. More
Paragon House Publishers, January 1988. Paper Back. Clean interiors. Otherwise well worn with dog-eared corners, sticker residue, dust stains, foxing & darkening from exposure to sunlight textblock edges. Foxing to verso of cover pages front & rear. Elsewise, foxing to blank pages opposite both front and back. (502 pp.). More
Herder and Herder, 1971. First American. Cloth. First edition in mildly edgeworn jacket with a few creases front panel at top. Tanned spine verso. NOT price clipped. Original price of $5.50 on flap. Brown cloth with gold lettering. Olive green end pages. Previous owner's initials & a date inked bottom..... More
ST MARTIN'S Press, January 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Darkening & wear to edges. Clean internally. No markings. More
The Friday Project, May 2014. Cloth. A biography of Borges, by his translator. Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa, a widow, with a son in his twenties, was eleven..... More
Ediciones Del Norte, June 1990. Hardcover. More
Verso, July 1993. Paper Back. Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is Argentinian is rarely discussed, as if his international reputation had somehow cleansed him of nationality..... More
Dalkey Archive Press, May 2018. Paper Back. Alistair Ian Blyth's Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series of dreamlike narratives loosely linked by the subject of libraries: book hoarding, book hunting, book burning, and, above all, the..... More
Thunder's Mouth Press, November 2002. Paper Back. A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside..... More
